We've been in New York for weeks, working our way from Staten Island, up through the City, and out to the end of Long Island. There is a lot to see! Arriving at our anchorage location - tough to beat this one! We picked up our son Andrew while we were at the marina at Staten Island. We used this as a home base for a week or so. We were able squeeze in a whirlwind day of seeing the sights. I'm sure we missed a few things, but we did get to see a lot. Trains, Ferries, Subw

As Captain Ron says, "If it's going to happen, it's going to happen out there!". Enough with the many boat projects, today we left the dock and are heading north. Many projects left to do, but we've tackled the major ones that we needed to get done before we left. I'm sure there will be many more that we don't even know of yet. We ended the day in a small river off the main ICW channel. It's supposed to get windy and stormy tonight and tomorrow, so we may just hang out her

Boatyard projects continue... and continue. We're going on a month here at the yard, but tomorrow is supposed to be Splash day! Continuation of the previous project - Escape Hatches! We finally got the old hatches out and everything prepped for the new ones. Lots of time working on the template, carefully marking holes, carefully drilling, redrilling, drilling with bigger bits... eventually we got the new hatches to fit and set them in a lot of new 5200 sealant. If these d

Life at the boatyard... we've been here nearly two weeks, working 7-days a week, 8-10 hours a day. Wait... isn't this supposed to be the relaxing retirement we've been looking forward to? Well, we actually enjoy projects and love being able to check things off the to-do list. We have quite a list - a binder full of sticky notes. Some things we need to get done, some wants, and many that can happen anytime. We would like to get them all done, but aren't willing to postpo

With the countdown timer running, we used any spare time to get some boat projects done while we had the space and tools that would make the job easier. Woodworking definitely falls into the category of "easier in a shop". We had a couple of projects in mind. The cockpit table being high on the list. It is tough to replace a perfectly good table, but the idea of having a nice wood table was too tempting. Teak seemed the right option, until we saw the price. We opted for

True North - the name has grown on us. We are the 4th owners, and she has always been named True North. We originally thought about renaming her - we're not too concerned with renaming a boat. There are methods/rituals to avoid the bad luck if you are superstitious. But, like I said, True North has grown on us. While her name will stay the same... being architects we can't help but revise the logo to make it feel like ours. We narrowed down the many early morning sketches an